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In June I have learned some SEO techniques and tried to apply them for a couple of new articles but I didn’t have the time to examine the results yet. The AdSense income is nearly same with the same month. At least I will get to the AdSense payment treshold next month. I received my firt AdSense payment in 6 months time and if I get to 100$ barrier next month I can consider new goals like getting payment every month.

I couldn’t write so many articles at Hubpages because I’ve put most of my time to my new Amazon affiliate shop this month. I’ve finished the most of the technical background of the Amazon shop and there are some design issues left. Considering I got no Amazon earnings for this month it will be a good step to set up an Amazon shop and build a consistent Amazon affiliate income.

So here are the numbers:

Earnings for June: 32,74$

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This month has been a inspirational month cause I’ve received my first AdSense payment. You get the feeling of earning money online when you start spending it. I’ve received my first AdSense payment after six months so now I have to set up my goals to receive AdSense payment each month.

My main source of income is Hubpages again. I’ve created a few more Hubs this month and I’m experimenting with different niches. I’ve created AdSense channel for each of my Hubs and I’ll develop more Hubs in high paying niches. I’ve got some Amazon sales also but my Amazon earnings are just depending on pure luck. I have to find some time from my day job for creating some time for my Amazon Associates Store. Here are the numbers for May:

Earnings for May: 42,83$

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After looking for numbers and charts at Google Adsense page for a long long time, those numbers came into real cash at last. I have hit the 100$ barrier at the end of April and the hard earned dollars are at my bank by this day. Talking and writing about money doesn’t give much inspiration but drinking few beers with online money will be a great inspiration for sure.

I’ve received my first payment from Adsense at the end of sixth month. Regarding that it’s my first payment and now my earnings are higher when compared to the first days, I expect to receive my next payment in 2-3 months and I’m aiming to receive monthly payments from Adsense by the end of the month.

Hubpages has been the most important source of my Adsense earnings, considering the organic traffic it provides to my articles. My blog is a journal of my online money making experience for now but I hope that BloggerDollar will also earn me some considerable money soon.

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Amazon Affiliate Program announced a new service which can be considered as a revolution in their services. Now Amazon is offering MP3 sales and let their affiliate partners to sell MP3 products through widgets. The new service will be a good income for music blogs for sure. Amazon offers you a variety of options with their MP3 widget. You can select bestsellers from different genres or you can just create your own album. This new step in Amazon services will heat the blogosphere for sure. The coming days will show us the user experience and how well the system works. For now I will only put a small widget of my beloved Classic Rock Mp3’s as a demo and I will wait to see if some of my readers share my music taste.

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Once more beginning of a new month and time for monthly earnings report. After a boost up at earnings in March, I was a little a fraid to see the earnings go down and lose my excitement. Actually my earnings are nearly the same when compared to March. Last month I had very good eCPM results from Adsense. Smartpricing is a serious issue in Adsense and I got smartpriced as expected. I have to admit that my Hubpages traffic is less when compared to last month but the Adsense earnings are nearly the half. Surely I have to increase the number of my Hubs and increase traffic. What came to my surprise is it’s been a great month for Amazon Associates program. I’ve sold 10 products this month and I can see some of my Amazon capsules at Hubpages is working good.

The important thing is I finally made the 100$ milestone at Google Adsense and I will hopefully receive my first paycheck from online business. This month I’ve also seen the importance of Amazon Associates and I am working on an Amazon Store Project right now. (I will give the information about the on going project but my main purpose is to build an Amazon Store with it’s own shopping cart.)

Here are the numbers :

Earnings for April: 49,72$

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This month I’m writing my monthly report with a smile on my face (at last). Thanks to major design & ad placement changes at Hubpages the CTR’s for adsense has gone up dramatically and I’ve managed to earn some reasonable amount from Adsense. I’ve just missed the 100$ in total with a buck and I have to wait next month for the money.

While earning money from Adsense, I was desperate about my Amazon affiliate earnings. I couldn’t make any sales until the end of month an just as I was losing hope I managed to sell a Sony CyberShot Camera (Although I don’t have any related Hubs about cameras). I am now thinking of whether receiving a Amazon Gift certificate or waiting to hit the cheque limit. I still don’t get how to focus for products at Amazon because every item I sell is unrelated to my Hubs. I am planning to publish a Amazon Store this month so I hope that things will get better with Amazon.

So end of story here are the numbers :

Earnings for March: 58,53$

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February has been a good month (I still don’t earn any reasonable money but I am getting a good curve so there’s no reason to be pessimistic). At last I’ve passed the 15$ mark with Adsense earnings and I’ve passed 50$ on Grand Total. Google team have sent me my PIN code after 40$ so I’m ready to receive my payment when I hit 100$. I’ve also managed to sell some Amazon stuff from my Hubs. To my surprise I haven’t sold any of the items that I’ve been listing. I guess people are clicking my Amazon links and buying other items while surfing in related items in Amazon. In total I’ve passed 20$ this month.

The rise in my earnings are actually related to huge traffic I’ve received from StumbleUpon this month. I will write a detailed post about how I got a big traffic from StumbleUpon after analyzing the effects and stability of the traffic. As a result of the huge StumbleUpon traffic to one of my Hubs I received most of my earnings from Hubpages (without any effort).

Earnings for February: 20,05$

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For maximizing your earnings you shouldn’t just go on and write whats on your head. You should go for the keywords inside people’s minds. The keywords you choose determines the traffic. You don’t need to sign-up for high cost SEO services for finding your path. The best tools you need are already at your service for free.

•  Google Trends

Google Trends is a free Google service for looking up Google search statistics. You can compare similar keywords and choose which one to go on with. For example you want to write an article on “PlayStation 3″. You can choose between writing PlayStation3, PlayStation 3, PS3, PS 3. By comparing those keywords you can find out which term has been searched the most. In this case as you can see PS3 has been the most searched term.

• Google ADWORDS Tool

After determining your keyword (In this case let’s go on with PS3), you can find out which combination gives the best CPC. When we check the PS3 keyword with the Adwords tool Google Adwords gives us keyword ideas with search volumes. From the menu we can choose to display the average CPC of the keyword combinations. For PS3 example; “PS3 forums” gives average of 2,02$ while “PS3 forum” gives out 0,76$. So if you are going to publish a post about PS3 forums you should choose “PS3 forums” instead of “PS3 forum”.

• Adsense Top Paying Keywords

If you want to go out to the big league and compete for the highest paying keywords, you can look for that list. However the competition for those keywords is too much and it’s not a piece of cake to get those earnings. For example “Domain Name Yahoo pays out maximum CPC of 520$ and average of 97$. If you can get good rankings for some of those keywords it’s sure that you can earn big money.

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This month I’ve focused my attention to Hubpages. (You can check my review of Hubpages) Regarding that I don’t have so much time from my day work I choose Hubpages because it offers good organic traffic without any effort at all. It also gives me the freedom to write on any topic. This month I created two new Hubs:

Solar Power - Ways of Producing Electricty from Sun

PES 2008 TRICKS & MOVES

Both of them started generating Google traffic immediately. My Hub traffic is rising constantly and I expect double income in 2 months. Let’s cut the talk and come to the facts:

Earnings for January: 9,57$

My adsense earnings slightly increased from last month but my Amazon affiliates not producing any income somehow. Although I created a Hub about science fiction movies which seemed perfect for Amazon ads, I couldn’t get any orders.

I expect to find some time from my work this month and put some effort on my blog at the same time with my Hubs and at least earn more than 15$ in February.

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December has been an awful month in terms of earning money. At the first half of December I couldn’t actually deal with my blog or write on Hubpages because of my day job. Anyways I couldn’t create much content but I surely learn a lot of stuff in terms keyword targeting and SEO. I focused much more to my Hubs this month which creates me organic traffic without much effort and will propably convert better in future. I’ve written Hubs on higher paying keywords so there is an increase in my eCPM. December has been a bad month for CTR and I am taking this on Christmas spirit Last month I earned a few bucks from Amazon even though I didn’t intend to. This month I intend some Amazon earnings but couldn’t make any sales so I guess this is my bad luck this month. Please note that most of my adsense income is generated from Hubpages, and I expect a linear increase in my Hubpages earnings as the number of my Hubs go up.

Earnings for December: 8,74$

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